2009 Schedule
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Pecos Monastery
P.O. Box 1080
Pecos, NM 87552-1080
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Dear Friend of Pecos Benedictine Monastery,
We are delighted to announce our upcoming retreats:
Have you considered becoming a participant in:
October 23 - 25
Spirit, Soul, and Body: The Universal Call to Contemplation
Presented by: Cyprian Consiglio, OSBCam
The call to contemplation and mystical depth is not only found in every spiritual tradition, it is meant for every person, not just the "professional religious." Based on the pioneering work of the English monk Bede Griffiths and his predecessor Abhishiktananda, Cyprian Consiglio has built a practice and program that integrates the study and techniques from the East—notably Hinduism and Buddhism--with the wisdom of Eastern and Western Christianity for an experience aimed at the whole person--spirit, soul, and body. As Bede Griffiths taught the need to integrate all three of these aspects of the person at all times--what Ken Wilber would later call "integral spirituality"--the workshop sessions will include yoga, meditation, music and chanting, sacred reading, teaching, prayer, and discussion.
Cyprian Consiglio is a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation, musician, composer, author and teacher. He lived for ten years at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, serving for eight years as liturgist, choir director and teacher. Cyprian currently lives in Santa Cruz, California. He spends about half his time at home, and half his time traveling performing and teaching. Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts. He has six collections of original music recorded and published through OCP Publications: the latest being Awake at Last; three others released through the Equilibrium label with his long time collaborator, percussionist John Pennington, the most recent being Compassionate and Wise; and two for MedioMedia. He is also a member of the Collegeville Composers Group, the ensemble responsible for the Psallite: Songs for Liturgy and Life project for Liturgical Press. A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion, has been to India and other countries in Asia several times, performing as well as studying and teaching. He regularly leads retreats and conferences on meditation, and has done work in inter-faith dialogue.
Price: Single $180/Double $320
October 30 – November 1
Centering Prayer Retreat
Presented by Fr. William Meninger, OCSO
In 1974, Father William Meninger, a Trappist monk and retreat master at St. Josephs Abbey in Spencer, Mass. found a dusty little book in the abbey library, The Cloud of Unknowing. As he read it he was delighted to discover that this anonymous 14th century book presented contemplative meditation as a teachable, spiritual process enabling the ordinary person to enter and receive a direct experience of union with God. This form of mediction, recently known as “Centering Prayer” can be traced from and through the earliest centuries of Christianity.
He quickly began teaching contemplative prayer according to The Cloud of Unknowing at the Abbey Retreat House. One year later his workshop was taken up by his Abbot, Thomas Keating, and Basil Pennington, both of whom had been looking for a teachable form of Christian contemplative meditation to offset the movement of young Catholics toward Eastern meditation techniques. Ten years later, Abbot Keating, initiated his organized and effective Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. In order to facilitate a spiritualty focused on Centering Prayer.
Fr. Meninger leaves his silent monastic life only four times each year to teach lest he lose his own monastic orientation while sharing it with others. His book, The Loving Search for God is an effort to bring the message of The Cloud of Unknowing to men and women of the 21st century. Both books will be used as resources for this teaching and workshop.
Fr. William Meninger, ordained in 1958, entered the Trappists at St. Joseph’s Abbey in 1963. He was transferred to St. Benedicts Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado in 1973, where he served as Prior, vocation director, novice master, and teacher of theology and scripture. He spent 3 years in Israel where he studied scripture and taught at the Center for Biblical Studies in Jerusalem. He also did graduate studies at Seattle Univ, Harvard Divinity School, and Boston Univ. Fr. Meninger teaches Centering Prayer worldwide along with workshops on forgiveness, the Enneagram, sacred scriptures, and prayer.
Make reservations early.; full house in 2008!
Price: Single $180/Double $320
December 4 – 8
Advent Retreat
Presented by Pecos Community
Price: Single $275/Double $450
December 12 – 13
Non-Violent Communication
Presented by Jack Lehman, MA, LPCC
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful process which inspires compassionate connection and helps prevent and resolve conflicts at personal, professional, and political levels. Often referred to as Applied Buddhism or Chrisitianity. NVC is also a wonderful practice for developing and maintaining awareness of self and others, a practice which leads to deep transformation. After a brief overview of the Dominator Paradigm, how we create enemy images and our addiction to blame and punishment, we will learn, in an interactive way, the basics of the process, including empathy, self empathy, radical honesty, observations free of evaluations, the purpose of emotions, and about needs consciousness.
Jack Lehman received his first MA in Philosophy at the Sorbonne in ’72 and his second in Counseling at Southwestern College, in ’96. In between those dates he spent 10 years in India and Japan practicing Martial Arts, Vipassana, and the Inquiry of J. Krishnamurti. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Santa Fe, specializing in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. He is a Certified Trainer for the Center For Nonviolent Communication.
Price: Single $180/Double $320
December 28 – January 2
New Year Retreat
Presented by Pecos Community
Price: Single $300/Double $480
